There are four competitors left competing in the Ultimate Fighter Live tournament, however, all but two of them who were eliminated from the tournament before the semifinals will get a chance to compete once again for the UFC (barring injury suspension) at the Ultimate Fighter Live Finale which airs on FX on June 1st. Read More »
Ronda Rousey current Strikeforce women’s Bantamweight champion talked to Maxim magazine recently about a variety of subjects. The Olympic athlete and undefeated arm bar specialist talks about her title win, stare downs, smack talk, and more with the popular men’s magazine. (Video) Read More »
UFC President Dana White recently told the LA times that UFC will begin to do their own drug testing for performance enhancing drugs (PED's). The need for extra testing of UFC athletes has been continually in the news after Alistair Overeem’s removal from UFC 146 after a high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio showed up from a random drug test. Overeem’s subsequent removal caused an avalanche of changes for the UFC 146 card. Read More »
UFC Champion Junior dos Santos and challenger Frank Mir were face to face when they sat down with Mark Kriegel for a FoxSports.com interview. The UFC 146 headliners talked about their strengths going into their May 26th matchup that will take place inside the MGM Grand Arena. Read More »
Jeffery Earnhardt, the grandson of legendary NASCAR champion racer Dale Earnhardt and nephew of the successful Dale Earnhardt JR, has some enormous shoes to fill in the race world. The Nationwide Series racer has blazed his own path however, in representing racecar drivers as athletes. Read More »
The UFC has announced three featherweight matches for UFC on FOX 4 which takes place August 4th in Los Angeles, California. In each of the three announced matches, each featherweight fighter is looking to get back in the win column and rebound from a previous loss. Josh Grispi vs Pablo Garza, Nam Phan vs Cole Miller, and Manny Gamburyan vs Michihiro Omigawa have all been added to the UFC on FOX 4 event. Read More »
After a two and a half year layoff due to injuries and medical conditions, welterweight Mike "Quick" Swick (14–4) will return to action at UFC on FOX 4. The Ultimate Fighter season one competitor has been so long removed from action that many fans had began to wonder if his MMA career was over Read More »
Bob Sapp fought in Australia yesterday, just six days after a 40 second loss to Mariusz Pudzianowski (4-2) at KSW at Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland. His loss to Pudzianowski was his sixth loss in a row and his 10th first round loss in his last 12 fights. His bout in Australia was for the Cage Fighting Championship organization and "The Beast" faced off against Soa Palelei (17 – 3). Read More »
Renan Barao (28 – 1) will face Urijah Faber’s for the Interim Bantamweight Championship at UFC 148. The announcement was made at the end of tonight’s Ultimate Fighter Live by UFC President Dana White. Renan Barao and Faber will battle for the Interim title as current UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominic Cruz has been sidelined with an ACL Injury. Read More »
UFC Primetime goes into the personal lives of both fighters as they prepare for their Heavyweight Championship clash at UFC 146. If you missed the first episode of the three part Primetime series before the May 26th fight, we have you covered! Read More »
A knee injury has forced Mark Hunt to withdraw from his UFC 146 bout with Stefan Struve. "Big" Lavar Johnson will step in and face Struve as a replacement for Hunt on less than two weeks notice. It's a great replacement as both fighters like to 'bring it' to their opponent. Read More »
Liverpool based newspaper Liverpool Echo is reporting that UFC veteran Paul Kelly was arrested on drug charges after his home and others were raided by Police late Monday night. During the raid, drugs and ammunition were found at the three homes that were raided. Four people were arrested including Kelly, who has been charged with conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs. Read More »
UFC officials on The Ultimate Fighter Live media call confirmed that on this Friday’s "Ultimate Fighter Live" Dana White will announce Urijah Faber’s opponent for the Interim Bantamweight Championship fight at UFC 148. The Ultimate Fighter Live will air 10PM Eastern on FX. Read More »
UFC on Fuel TV 3’s "fight of the night" between Chan Sung Jung and Dustin Poirier had the crowd at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va. on their feet for all four rounds of high paced back and forth action. The MMA world blew up in praise for the fight and calls for it to be a "fight of the year" candidate rang out in the bout's wake. Take a look at these highlights from the amazing battle. Read More »
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s third Fuel TV event, held Tuesday at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va., drew an attendance of 4,592. Ticket sales generated a live gate of $343,175. These figures were released at the UFC on Fuel TV 3 post-fight press conference. Read More »
Following UFC on Fuel TV 3 Tuesday night at The Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va., UFC President Dana White announced the "Fight of the Night", "Knockout of the Night" and "Submission of the Night" bonus winners, each being worth $40,000. "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung was the top earner of the night, bringing home both "Submission of the Night" and "Fight of the Night" honors, for a total of $80,000 in bonus money. Read More »
M-1 Light heavyweight champion and former The Ultimate Fighter season 8 finalist Vinny Magalhaes (9-5) has sold his M-1 Light heavyweight belt on eBay. Magalhaes has been on the outs with the Russian based M-1 promotion due to lack of fights being booked and a dispute with the M-1 front office. Read More »
UFC President Dana White used his video blog this week to fire back at certain members of the MMA media who had been critical of the May 5th UFC on FOX 3 broadcast that saw Nate Diaz take on Jim Miller in the main event. Read More »
Chael Sonnen appeared on Canada’s The Sports Network show "Off the Record" and was asked if former professional wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was part of his coaching staff. Sonnen says that Austin is his strength and conditioning coach but both parties have agreed to not talk about their working relationship publicly. Check the video! Read More »
Chad “Grave digger” Griggs (11-2) will be making the move to the light heavyweight division after getting steamrolled by Travis Browne in his UFC debut last month. The Strikeforce Heavyweight veteran was on a six fight win streak at heavyweight until being stopped by Travis Browne at UFC 145 in Griggs’ UFC debut. Read More »
"Filthy" Tom Lawlor (7-4) is no stranger to outrageous antics and costumes for his UFC weigh-in’s and fight entrances. In the lead in to his fights, often what his next costume/stunt will be is talked about just as much as the actual fight. In this video Lawlor details what his plans are when he takes on UFC veteran Jason MacDonald at he UFC on FUEL TV 3 event on Tuesday night. Read More »
The Ultimate Fighter 9 winner James Wilks has announced his retirement from the UFC and the sport of MMA. Wilks last fought at UFC 120 in October 2010, losing to Claude Patrick. Wilks indicated that injuries have taken their tolls and forced him to call it a career while focusing on his gym in California. Read More »
